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rthstewart) wrote2018-12-09 03:03 pm
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Three Sentence Ficathon
UPDATE! EDIT!
We're running into the Dreamwidth comment limits so all new prompts should be posted here Keep responding to and filling already posted prompts here, but all new ones should go to the new thread!

We're running into the Dreamwidth comment limits so all new prompts should be posted here Keep responding to and filling already posted prompts here, but all new ones should go to the new thread!

Someone did this banner for me a couple of years ago. It's great, isn't it?
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caramelsilver ran one last year on Livejournal and I did two over here a few years ago. We'll keep it open until January 31, 2019 which should give everyone time to play a little. This is a delightful part of the online fandom community.
What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is a challenge where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and answer as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.
What do I do first?
You post prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:
fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence.
Only one prompt per comment please. So, for example,
Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand."
What else?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt are allowed and even encouraged! (We get really fun stories going this way).
Can I still post if I need more than 3 sentences? Or should I just abuse grammar in ways the English language never contemplated?
Yes. Yes.
But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID
Can anyone play?
Yes! Please signal boost this to your flist, followers, and any other places you frequent. Come one, come all!
The more people who come and play, the better!
Can I spread the word?
Yes, please. I'd love to create a nifty banner with an embed code but I fail at it. So if you create one, I'll post it and everyone can use it.
How long will it go?
Tentatively, we'll close it on January 31, 2019.
Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag. 3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes and could be helpful for Yuletide bears, too.
What about spoilers, content warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squick?
I thought about this. It wasn't an issue the last 2 times I ran this but times change. In my experience, this typically gets too big, moves too fast, and the stories are too short for content warnings and ratings. You should assume spoilers are fair game and that the initial poster and responder have opted to use no content warnings or tags. I've found personally that I can skim by stuff that, from the prompt, I can tell isn't my favorite flavor of delicious cake. Use your best judgment and be prepared to skip over things that aren't your thing.
And here, have some icons!

I'll start things off...
Edit to add on 12/18/2018 Please check out this update here. And this friending meme if you're so inclined here.
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2. Susan had known, intellectually, that Helen Williams Pevensie was, much like herself, clever, secretive, organized, prepared, meticulous, conversational, brutally practical, and competent; Susan even grudgingly acknowledges that she had learned first from her mother – and not Narnia – the importance of putting on faces (and gloves, lipstick, hair done just so, local customs and conventions always observed, oh yes – Susan’s own black dress, gloves, hat and veil, stockings, handbag and pumps came from her mother’s closet, carefully stored in a box under the plainly inked label funerals).
However, it is only as she sorts through the detritus of her family’s lives that she finds answers in the things her mother had hidden (and of course she hid them, as Susan herself has done) – the poetry and stories submitted (and accepted) under pseudonyms to literary magazines, the sage advice columns and thoughtfully penned responses to grieving wives, young mothers with fussy babies, and women trying to make-do with too little (also under pseudonyms and all meticulously filed and cross-referenced on file cards with the recipes and household accounting); and last, at the very bottom of the sewing basket, under mending that would now never be repaired, there are notes to Mrs. Goodwin – Beatrice -- so exquisitely passionate and explicit, they make Susan herself blush.
Susan weeps, rages, and then what comes after is not acceptance for she will never accept senseless death, but resolve – she rejects life as the once and always and never again Queen and resolves to create as her mother did, love as her mother did, curate, cultivate and share wisdom as her mother did, but to live the life her mother did not get to live, unapologetically and without the shame.
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do I spy a queer Susan
this is tremendously sad but also resonant and in a way hopeful and an absolute delight
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